After a decade filled with the undead and glowing, girly vampires, it’s time for some classic horror, and we’re not talking lycans and mutated monsters. No, the writer of action comedies, including Full Strike and Let’s Go!, Yan Pak-wing, along with Chiu Sin-hang, make their directorial debut with a ode to 80s Hong Kong horror comedies, Vampire Cleanup Department (VCD).

Like the hopping blood sucking films of the late 80s and early 90s, audiences are not dealing with gore porn, or whatever horror flavour currently dominates the landscape. The hopping vampires plasted with a strip of yellow talisman on their forehead are an icon and VCD relishes in introducing the g